Improvement in afghan



PATENT DFFIGE.

Dann BIOKFORD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN AFGHAN.

Specication forming part of Letters Petent'No. 80,122, dated illy V21, 1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAN'A BIcKFoR-n, of

the city Of Boston, county of Suffolk v and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new Article of Manufacture made from machineknitted fabrics;and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with thedrawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is adescriptionof my invention suicient to enable those skilled in the artto practice it. i

In the manufacture of carriagerobes, Of Zephyr Or Woolen yarn, they haveheretofore been made by the very tedious and expensive process ofcrocheting by hand, and with a single crochet-needle. They are usuallymade in stripes of strong contrasting colors, and, from the great amountof time and labor demanded, 'their cost is so high as to be beyond thereach of'most persons. These articles .are called afghans, and are madeof a single thickness, and ornamented and fringed as taste may dictate.'A Itis a great desideratum that such articles,

now standing so :high in public favor, both, because of theirbeautyandutility, should'be made more rapidly and'chezply, and that machineryshould be called in to fabricatel them., This being done, jthischaracter of article'comes within the r'each of larger numbers ofpersons, and can then, Without ex-4 trax'fagance, be applied to a numberof other important uses Where at present it is not used at all, as, forinstance', for blankets, bed-v coverings, table and piano-covers,carpets, 85e.

My new method of making such an article is as follows: I first knit upona circular-knitting machine Or any Otherclass of machine which' willmake tubular goods. I knit such strip in the form of a tube, and I makethe strips in plain, or ribbed, or fancy knitting, as may be preferred,and then make as many other strips as may be'required, and of such'other colors or patterns as fashion or taste may suggest; the requisitenumber of strips lbein g made for the particular article desired,

whethenafgham table-cover, or otherwise and their lengths being. .eitherdetermined in or the lengths beingcut from continuous webs, made asabove, but of indenite lengths.

ted or other fringe, by Way of iinish and greater ornamentation. z

I would here remark that a knittedeord or -frin e I do not Wish to beconsidered as com ceding to be Old, and that'I am about makingapplication for patentsfor the same as of my invention. l A l I In thedrawings, Figure-1 represents an aflar-knitted goods.V

, Instead of afringe, a'

some cases be found more suitable to surround the the article so made,as,- for instance,

of a portion of the same when made of tubutable-cover, or carpet, &c.

I claiml A An afghan, blanket, or similar article, comgether edge toedge, and with the seain concealed by a knitted orothercord or welt, and

the'whole finished with a border or fringe, substantially as shown anddescribed.

` DANA BIGKFORD.

lVitnesses l AcHsA M. LAWSON, SYLvEsTER PnnLPs. l

the knitting-machine and finished at the ends,"

These strips are next to be united together to either to unite thestrips or to ornament the line of junction after they are united, or a'knitted` or other cord may be stitched t0.thefabric. to 'cover suchline` of junction. The Whole article may then be bordered by aknitghanmade in accordance with my invention; and-Fi g. 2 represents,cnlarged,acrosss`ect1on knitted border may in when the same is designedt0 be used as a` posed of tubular-knitted strips, united to-r

